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Radiolive is further investigating the financial crisis at Nova and is looking for Nova teachers to interview and hear their stories. Make yourself heard.

I don't think there has been a drop of good news for Nova since June. According to the Asahi Shimbun, four ex-students have filed a 2.45 million-yen class action lawsuit today against Nova over the way Nova calculated its refunds.

Ken Worsley of Trans-Pacific Radio and Japan Economy News & Blog gives his thoughts on Nova's financial crisis to Radio New Zealand.

It turns out that the fax Nova president "Nozom" Sahashi sent out telling everyone not worry was a lie. Titled instructors still have not been paid, making pay 11 days late. The cruel irony is that they were given a payslip, just not the money itself. Ha ha, very funny. Isn't that illegal?

TV3 in New Zealand has aired a report on Nova teachers not getting paid.

Hot on the foot steps of the CTV report yesterday, is an article by The New Zealand Herald. There's nothing new in the article, but it gets the word out to Kiwis that working for Nova is a risky proposition.

Money quote:

Remember Randy, the guy who protested by himself in Osaka? Well, CTV, Canada's largest privately-owned network, has picked up his story. Consider this another nail in Nova's coffin.

Some Canadian English teachers are among the thousands of worried workers left without prospects and paycheques in the wake of vast financial problems for Japan's largest private language school.

Nova Group, which has 900 schools, employs about 7,000 foreign workers -- more than any other Japanese company.

It is just about over for Nova. On top of Nova's cash flow problems, pay for the Japanese staff has been delayed, pay for the teachers has been delayed, schools are being closed (evictions, actually, for not paying the rent) and now teachers are faced with the prospect of being evicted from their apartments through no fault of their own.

It's starting. From the Daily Yomiuri:

If you've been following the massive "End of Nova" thread in the forums, you will have read that . How much more BS can teachers take? If there are problems paying teachers, can we expect the staff to paid next week? Will they continue to put up with pay being late again? I imagine teachers and staff feel like this right now: